■ marriage
C. Marie McLean (’ 92 BSBA, ’ 92 MAC) and
James Allen Tracy Jr. of Asheville.
■ family additions
Torrey Templeton Flores (’ 92 ABEd, ’ 93
MEd) and Ben Flores (’ 92 AB) of Wake
Forest; a son, Matthew Harris Flores, on May
4, 2007. Kim Fisher Turner (’ 92 AB) and
John Lovick Turner V of Athens, Ga.; a daughter, Sloane McLeod Turner, on Oct. 11, 2007.
’ 93 Monica Sparks Benfield (’ 93
BSPHR) and B. Heath Benfield
(’ 88 AB) of Reidsville have
become co-owners of the new Lake Brandt
Pharmacy in Summerfield. The Benfields will
co-manage the store, and Monica will serve as
full-time pharmacist. William O. Bullock
Jr. (’ 93 MBA) of Cary has been promoted to
vice president of bioscience industrial development for the new statewide operations and
economic development division of the N.C.
Biotechnology Center. David Patrick
Ferrell (’ 93 AB) of Raleigh has been elected
to the board of directors for the March of
Dimes Eastern Carolina Division. Ferrell is a
partner in Vandeventer Black LLP. Bryan
Wayne Jenkins (’ 93 AB) of Smithfield has
joined Hughes Pittman & Gupton LLP as a
CPA in the firm’s tax practice. Tristan
Nicolas Louis (’ 93 ABJM) of New York has
been named director of project management
office at GroupM, a media investment management company. Timothy Patrick
Rogers (’ 93 BSBA, ’ 93 MAC) of Charlotte
has been promoted to vice president of finance
and controlling for NAFTA at Continental
AG. Andrew W. Sellon (’ 93 MFA) of
Bronxville, N. Y., an artistic associate at the Vermont Stage Company, played the role of
Wayne Wellacre in the farce Inspecting Carol in
the fall 2007 production and will play the Fool
in the company’s spring production, King Lear.
■ marriage
Elizabeth Grimes Purrington (’ 93 AB, ’00
MBA) and Dr. John Granville Alley Jr. (’ 90
AB, ’ 98 MD) of Raleigh.
■ family additions
William Bjerke (’ 93 AB) and Alina Raines
Bjerke of Ridgewood, N. J.; a daughter, Lucy
Gene Bjerke, on Nov. 15, 2007. Angela
Moore Butner (’ 93 BSBIO, ’ 96 BSN) and
Gregory Thomas Butner (’ 99 BSPH) of
Wilmington; a son, William Stratford Butner,
on Nov. 10, 2007. Pamela Proctor
Criscitiello (’ 93 BSN) and Mike Criscitiello
(’ 93 BSBIO) of Baltimore; a daughter,
Savannah Grace Criscitiello, on Dec. 21, 2007.
David Roy Karatz (’ 93 ABJM) and
Jennifer Read Karatz of Peekskill, N. Y.; a son,
Xavier David Karatz, on Nov. 1, 2007.
Donna Cook Maciejewski (’ 93 BSPHR)
and Matthew Leonard Maciejewski of Chapel
Hill; a son, Mason Cook Maciejewski, on Oct.
31, 2007. Lori Ann Nicholson (’ 93 MPA)
and Kurt Mueller Kuhlmann of Brookeville,
Md.; a daughter, Grace Margaret Kuhlmann,
on Nov. 22, 2007. Robin Marion Schultz
(’ 93 AB) and Jeff Schultz (’ 94 BSBA) of
Bethesda, Md.; a son, Travis Henry Schultz, on
Nov. 4, 2007.
’ 94 Dwight W. Anderson (’ 94
MBA) of New York has received
the MBA Alumni Merit Award
from the Kenan-Flagler Business School
Alumni Association. Anderson is principal and
portfolio manager for the investment firm
Ospraie Management LLC. Tasha Pepper
Dickinson (’ 94 AB, ’ 97 JD) of Boca Raton,
Fla., has been named partner in the Morris
Law Group. Dickenson heads the wealth
preservation and corporate departments for the
firm. Susan Massey Kauffman (’ 94 MA)
of Durham has been appointed director of
communication for the newly created Office
of Undergraduate Education at Duke University. Christopher Dabney McCoy (’ 94
AB) of Charlotte has joined King & Spalding
as counsel, focusing on real estate law. Amy
M. Rickard (’ 94 ABEd, ’00 MSA) of Chapel
Hill has been named Principal of the Year for
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
Rickard is wrapping up her position as principal at Glenwood Elementary to become principal for the new school, Elementary No. 10,
slated to open in August. Jeff Schultz (’ 94
BSBA) of Bethesda, Md., has been promoted
to vice president of risk at General Electric.
■ marriages
James Reuben Copland IV (’ 94 AB) and
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Tahira Aisha Williams of New York. R.
Karen Greene (’ 94 ABJM) and Marcel Gem
Braithwaite of New York. Cynthia
Elizabeth Nesnow (’ 94 AB) and Kevin
Crawford Piver of Raleigh.
■ family additions
Kristin Kisselbach Balogh (’ 94, ’ 95 BSBIO)
and John Charles Balogh of Encinitas, Calif.; a
daughter, Riley Evelyn Balogh, on Dec. 4,
2007. Bethany Mansfield Beale (’ 94
BSPH, ’ 98 MSW) and Michael A. Beale of
Chapel Hill; a daughter, Ashton Grace Beale,
on April 28, 2007. Christopher West
Brooks (’ 94 AB) and Amy Long Brooks of
Cary; a son, Anderson West Brooks, on Sept.
17, 2007. Stephanie Grant Rietschel (’ 94
AB) and William Truman Rietschel of
Greensboro; a son, Benjamin Carl Rietschel,
on Oct. 30, 2007. Jeff Schultz (’ 94 BSBA)
and Robin Marion Schultz (’ 93 AB) of
Bethesda, Md.; a son, Travis Henry Schultz, on
Nov. 4, 2007. Lindsay Jones Webster (’ 94
ABJM) and Jesse Albert Webster Jr. of
Raleigh; a son, Jesse Bagby Webster, on Nov.
10, 2007.
’ 95 Patrena Necole Benton (’ 95,
’ 94 AB) of Durham has been promoted to executive director of the
N.C. Health Careers Access Program.
Dawn Suzanne Bryant (’ 95 ABJM) of Murrells Inlet, S.C., has been promoted to business
editor for The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Tanya Oestreicher Evans (’ 95 ABJM) of
Wake Forest has been named community relations manager for Progress Energy with
responsibility for 13Virginia border and north
central N.C. counties. Crystal De’Anne
Holland (’ 95 ABEd, ’ 98 MSLS) of Winston-Salem has been named a librarian at the
Forsyth County Public Library. C. Marshall
Lindsay (’ 95, ’ 94 AB) of Charlotte has joined
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP as a
partner in the litigation practice group.
William Starr McLean II (’ 95 AB) of Delphi, Ind., has been installed as pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Delphi. McLean
received his master of divinity degree from
Princeton Theological Seminary in May 2007.
Dr. S. Brent Ridge (’ 95 BSPH, ’00 MD)
of New York appeared on The Martha Stewart
Show when Stewart announced her donation
of $5 million in honor of her mother, Martha
Kostyra, to create the Martha Stewart Center
for Living at the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Ridge, who spearheaded the project, is vice
president of healthy living at Martha Stewart
Living Omnimedia. He also is an assistant
clinical professor in the department of geriatrics and adult development at Mount Sinai
School of Medicine. See Profile, page 103.
